A 19-year-old man was arrested from Southeast Delhi on Saturday afternoon in reference to the April 8 grenade assault on the home of Punjab BJP chief Manoranjan Kalia in Jalandhar in a joint operation between the Delhi Police Particular Cell and the Punjab Police, sources within the police mentioned.
The arrested man, Saidul Ameen – a resident of Uttar Pradesh’s Amroha – had reached Delhi on Friday and was hiding at a lodge in Jasola, they added.
“Ameen was in common contact with fugitive Jeeshan Akhtar, additionally the mastermind behind the homicide of Maharashtra chief Baba Siddique. Akhtar is suspected to be working both from Azerbaijan or Europe,” a supply within the police mentioned.
Addressing mediapersons after the assault, Punjab Particular DGP (Regulation and Order) Arpit Shukla had mentioned that gangster Zeeshan Akhtar – a identified affiliate of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, and Pakistani gangster Shehzad Bhatti – had been behind the assault.
Following a tip-off acquired by a Delhi Police Particular Cell workforce from Northern Vary, a workforce led by Inspectors Ravi Tushir and Puran Pant – underneath the supervision of DCP Amit Kaushik and ACP Rahul Singh – raided the lodge together with Punjab Police personnel and arrested Ameen from his room on Saturday.
An officer mentioned that Ameen was instructed to destroy his cellphone and shave his head after the assault at Kalia’s home. “He was additionally informed to go underground for just a few days and await for directions for an additional job… Ameen was contacted through Instagram and employed to do throw grenade outdoors Kalia’s residence for Rs 50,000. He acquired the cash in installments from completely different accounts through UPI transactions.”
Based on the officer, Ameen was instructed to gather the grenade from a locality in Amritsar. “He employed an e-rickshaw for Rs 1,500, threw the grenade outdoors Kalia’s residence and fled,” he mentioned. One other supply within the police mentioned Ameen watched YouTube movies to discover ways to throw grenades.
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The Punjab Police had on April 8 claimed to have solved the case inside 12 hours with the arrest of two individuals. They’d additionally recovered the e-rickshaw used within the assault. They’d suspected that Pakistan’s intelligence company ISI, together with Babbar Khalsa Worldwide, was behind the assault and needed to create communal disturbance within the state. Kalia was residence on the time of the explosion, however was not harmed.
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